Improvement in horse-collars



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW B. KINGSBURY, OF UTIOA, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS HIS RIGHT TO WILLIAM DENT, OF MOHAWK,.AND EDWIN L. KINGSB-URY, OF HAM- ILTON, NEW YORK.

|MPRov|5|v|ENT IN HoRsE-coLLAR'S.

Specification forming part` of Letters Patent No. 155,733, dated October 6, 1874 application tiled July 17, 1874.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW B. KING-s- BURY, of Utica, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse-Collars; and I do hereby declare'that the following is a full, clear, land exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters'ot' reference marked thereon, which forni' a part of this specification.

Figure l'is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a side view ofthe collar with neck-piece attached. Fig. 3 is a side view of the collar with pads attached. Fig. 4 is a cross-section ofthe collar with pads, on line y y of Fig. 5.

My invention relates to a combined reversible horse collar and haines, as hereinafter described. i-

A A are the curved sides of the combined collar and hames, made of metallic ooncavoconvex plates, and are provided with drafthooks or lugs b b and rein loops or-rings c c. B is a neck-piece of metal, properly shaped and provided with a strap-loop, d, and reinhook c, and lugs c c having holes to receive the bolts or scrcwswhich connect the upper ends of the sides with the neck-piece, forming a pivotal or hinged joint to allow the sides to open and close in adjusting the collar on or removing it from the horses neck. The upper ends of the sides are made with several holes, to adjust the collar to any required size, and the lower ends are made with holes d to receive the fastening-straps. C C are pads tted in the concavities b' of the sides, as shown in Fig. 6 of the drawings. The sides A are provided with holes s near the edges, as shown in Fig. 2, to receive the threads which fasten the leather cover of the pads to the sides, as seen at S in Fig. 3. The pads and their covers may be attached to the sides in any other convenient manner. The sides are shaped to tit and work easily on the neck and shoulders of the horse, and the convex faces are made perfectly smooth, so as not to rub or gall the neck or shoulders,and they may be made with or without the thread-holes. the pads with the sides a combined metallic and leather collar and haines is formed,which is reversible, and either the metallic or leather sides may be used on the horses shoulders, and the neck-piece is coi'istructed so that it may be reversed, end for end, when the collar is reversed, to place the loop and rein-hook in proper positions.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a horse-collar, the/neck-piece B, provided with loop d and hook c, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. In combination with sides A, the metallic neck-piece B, provided with lugs c', loop d, and hook c, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the metallic eoncavoconvex sides A and neck-piece B with leathercovered pads O, forming a reversible leather and metallic collar and haines, substantially as described.

In testimony that I cla-im the foregoing as my own invention, I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ANDREW B. KINGSBURY.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM DENT, EDWIN L. KINGSBURY.

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